Zeit Contemporary Art Presents 50 Years of Painterly Abstraction
NEW YORK CITY, New York
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Zeit Contemporary Art presents through March 31st Painting Abstraction: 197X - Today, an online viewing room showcasing a selection of works by innovative historical and contemporary artists who have returned to and reinvented abstraction in order to speak to the present and future world we all inhabit. Despite the erroneous belief that abstraction had been carried to its limits, artists have revisited the language and taken it in new directions, ever pushing the boundaries of art in line with abstraction’s risk-taking legacy. The works in this viewing room are alternately spare, texturally dense, or vibrantly colored. All feature distinctive mark-making: abstraction constructed by pictorial means.
Arts+Leisure opens an exhibition of recent work by Julia Rooney
Julia Rooney, @SomeHighTide, 2020, Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Arts+Leisure is presenting @SomeHighTiide, an exhibition of recent work by Julia Rooney. The exhibition will run from January 16th through February 21st, 2021.
Comprising a series of two by two-inch paintings, Julia Rooneys exhibition @SomeHighTide queries our intimate relationships with our smartphones and their attendant social networks, with particular regard to the ways such platforms shape our habits of visual consumption and comprehension.
By adopting the harsh dimensional constraints of Instagram and similar photo-sharing applications, Rooney acknowledges the ubiquity of the smartphone screen, while her decidedly traditional mediums of oil paint and linen disturbs their veneer of manufactured precision and homogeneity. As hand-wrought effigies of the Instagram photo-square, Rooneys paintings call attention to the inherent inco